Senior Consultant - Life Sciences Advisory - Global Market Access

Job Family:

Strategy & Transformation Consulting

Travel Required:

Up to 25%

Clearance Required:

None

Is life sciences in your DNA? Breakthroughs in pharma are helping people live healthier lives, while medical devices enable patients to proactively maintain health – this is undoubtedly a transformative time for health care companies. Guidehouse’s Life Sciences practice is an engine of innovation, helping pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and diagnostic companies develop custom solutions that tackle today’s challenges, while anticipating tomorrows. You will have an immediate impact by partnering with our clients, across all levels, to deliver product planning, pricing, reimbursement, product commercialization, and regulatory and compliance solutions. Do you think you are up for the challenge?

We continuously strive to foster an inclusive and diverse work culture and thoughtfully develop our people through challenging work, valuable learning and educational programs. We cultivate a culture of mentorship and feedback for professional and personal growth. We help our clients take control of their future. This mission extends to our employee's careers, health and well-being and by the many ways we give back to our communities. If you’re passionately motivated to make a difference and deliver exceptional work, we invite you to learn more about your career opportunities at https://guidehouse.com/careers

What You Will Do:

The Global Market Access team focuses on value, access, pricing and commercialization strategy projects for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics companies. Our client services range from pre-commercialization product opportunity assessments to determining and developing launch pricing and access strategies across major and emerging global markets.

Responsibilities:

You will be responsible for developing and implementing pricing, value, and access strategies for pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device clients. This will involve working with senior staff to build project proposals, managing consulting teams across multiple large-scale, complex projects to develop and communicate client deliverables, and maintaining client relationships.

Key Expectations:

• Lead teams to design, execute, and deliver projects across key value and access topics such as pricing and reimbursement studies (inclusive of qualitative & quantitative methodologies), early access opportunity assessments, value communication strategy and payer engagement strategy

• Demonstrates strong market research skills, inclusive of primary research qualitative interview as well as quantitative survey experiences and familiarity with various pricing methodologies (i.e., analogue assessment, Van Westerndorp, Gabor Granger, Conjoint, etc)

• Understand key access tenets and landscapes across key geographic markets (US, EU, LATAM, APAC)

• Leverage work experience, business acumen, and subject matter expertise on global market access topics to determine key approach and develop strategic recommendations that efficiently and effectively address client business questions

• Proactively manages own and team members’ time effectively and efficiently across multiple complex projects

• Effectively liaise with senior staff to ensure strategically sound and actionable insights are developed as outputs to answer key client business questions on value, access, and pricing

• Serves as primary point of contact and engages executive level audience to deliver actionable insights and recommendations

• Builds and manages ongoing relationships as client thought partners as well as elevate new business opportunities to senior staff through identification of follow-on projects or new opportunities to further support client needs

• Supports the development of new analytical methodologies, capabilities, and intellectual property for use on future client engagements

• Develops thought leadership (written or podium) and provides subject matter expertise to clients

• Trains and mentors junior team members to enable team development and professional growth

What You Will Need/Senior Consultant:

• Requires a Bachelor’s degree. A major course of study in science, biomedical engineering, or healthcare policy and planning

• 3-5 years of transferrable consulting or work experience, with demonstrated experience in value, access, pricing and commercialization strategy projects for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device, and diagnostics companies in global markets